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The Bison (1-8, 0-6 Patriot League) gave it everything they had, but with two seconds left, and Bucknell needing two yards to get the two point conversion, DB Luke Denny’s hand knocked away the football from Bison WR Owen Garwood, finally breaking the spell and keeping Lehigh (6-2, 5-1 Patriot League) on track for the title – barely.
If Lehigh can get its defense back on track while getting a potentially record-setting performance from Luke Yoder, it could set the stage for another November to remember for the Mountain Hawks
It was ironic that this game ended up living up to the heavyweight matchup it was expected to be back in August, when Villanova was ranked in the Top 10 and Lehigh wasn’t ranked all that far behind them.
This weekend’s game on the Main Line — let’s just call it The Rematch — gives both Villanova (3–4, 2–2 Patriot) and Lehigh (6–1, 4–0 Patriot) an opportunity to shape the story of their seasons.
Schoellkopf field continued being a house of horrors for Lehigh (6-1, 4-0 Patriot) in a stunning 48-38 loss to Cornell (3-2, 1–1 Ivy).
Over the years, Schoellkopf Field up in Ithaca, New York has been a house of horrors for the Lehigh football program.
Less than two years ago, a win against Fordham was seen as a program-defiining moment for the Mountain Hawks. Now, as the 2026 Fordham Rams (1-4, 1-1 Patriot) visits the No. 6-ranked Lehigh Mountain Hawks (5-0, 3-0 Patriot), it’s a very different vibe.
It was the type of game a special teams coordinator could love.
Incredibly, Saturday’s game will not the only time a historic regular season winning streak involving Lehigh will have been played in Franklin Field.
Lehigh CB DJ Brown made the play of the day.
Lehigh football learned a great many lessons from Dartmouth on that day on what a very good FCS football team needs to do to win football games – control the offensive and defensive lines, play physical, have great execution on special teams, control the flow of the game, and minimize mistakes.
Lehigh went out in their Murray Goodman Stadium home opener and performed. And then some.
In the run-up to this week, you get the sense that it’s the first time both William & Mary and Lehigh are meeting each other firing on all cylinders. If you look at the record book, you don’t see much of a series, or a rivalry. William & Mary has dominated Lehigh, the Tribe winning eight of nine meetings. They played every year from 1984 to 1992.
Yoder would end with 120 net yards rushing on an efficient 17 attempts, adding 2 catches for 23 yards. And, of course, the four touchdowns.
In a strange way Coyote vs. the Roadrunner summarizes the opening of the football season for both Lehigh (1-0, 1-0 Patriot) and Georgetown (0-0, 0-0 Patriot).
They say good things come in threes.
This 2026 Lehigh team is a lot more than Yoder and the other twenty-one starters.
Lehigh/Holy Cross games are supposed to happen in November.
You could argue that Lehigh’s biggest departures came via the transfer portal, but what looms larger is the departure of their head coach, Kevin Cahill, who took over for his mentor Tony Reno at Yale.
In his three short years at Lehigh, Kevin Cahill proved himself to be an amazing head football coach. At the same time, as a Lehigh fan It felt like I didn’t get to taste enough of it.
Two of the best defenses in all of FCS were in a showdown on a cold December day in front of a large invested crowd, and the result was a game that was one for the ages.
This weekend at Murray Goodman Stadium, the Lehigh Mountain Hawks (12-0) will be facing off against a foe that is familiar to them in the Villanova Wildcats (10-2).
Four years ago, these freshmen were recruited to Lehigh at least in part because they wanted to be a part of college football history, the Lehigh/Lafayette Rivalry. The 2022 game, played right after the COVID pandemic, essentially, was not a sellout. This Saturday, four years later, Lafayette’s Fisher Stadium sold out easily. It’s the product of two college football programs that picked themselves up and have earned the hype and sellout this game has created.
This Saturday, Lehigh (11-0, 6-0 Patriot) beat longtime rival Colgate (4-7, 2-4 Patriot) to put the 2025 Mountain Hawks in the same rarefied air as some legendary teams with a 27-7 win.
Lehigh enters this week with a lot more on the line than they did in 2023, or even 2024. The Mountain Hawks are ranked fourth in the nation, and should they win their last two games, they may be setting themselves up for at least one home game in the FCS Playoffs, and potentially more.
With the Lehigh defense holding their second consecutive home opponent without a touchdown, Lehigh (10-0, 5-0 Patriot) secured a perfect regular season record at home – one of their early goals of the season – after what ended up as a dominating 38-3 win over Holy Cross (1-9, 1-4 Patriot).
It is not easy to survive an entire college football season undefeated, but the Lehigh Mountain Hawks (9-0, 4-0 Patriot League) hope to keep their incredible 2025 winning streak alive as they close out their regular season home schedule against the Holy Cross Crusaders (1-8. 1-3 Patriot League).
The theme of the game going in was “Hawk-O-Ween”, due to the game’s proximity to Halloween, but it was the Mountain Hawks that ended up with all the treats.
The Lehigh Mountain Hawks (8-0, 3-0 Patriot) and Georgetown Hoyas (5-3. 2-1 Patriot) enter this Saturday’s matchup with dizzying winning streaks.
The Lehigh Mountain Hawks surged to 8-0 (8-0, 3-0 Patriot) as they defeated the Fordham Rams (1-7, 1-3 Patriot) 27-6, on a sunny afternoon at Moglia Field in the Bronx.
The Rams might be a dangerous team for the Mountain Hawks as they approach the toughest stretch of their schedule, because the conference stretch now means so much for Lehigh, and Fordham isn’t an easy as their record might indicate, cliches aside.
The Lehigh Mountain Hawks turned in a dominating performance against Columbia as they beat Columbia 31-7.
There’s always that risk, especially on the road in college football, that a highly-favored team comes out, makes a bunch of mistakes, and ends up in a rock fight that could go either way.
Almost one year later from that disappointing day in New Haven, against the same opponent, the Lehigh Mountain Hawks (6-0, 2-0 Patriot League) beat the Yale Bulldogs (2-1, 1-0 Ivy) 31-13 by demonstrating that they learned extremely will the lessons of that loss last season.
There is one game in all of FCS this week that features two undefeated teams, and it is taking place this Saturday at noon at Murray Goodman Stadium.
With all the momentum on Penn’s side, Lehigh got the kickoff after Penn took the lead and saw another drive stall at the Penn 20. As they had done three times before, Lehigh lined up for a fourth field goal try. It was poised to be Garrido’s only four field goal game in his Lehigh career, and would have built up on his career scoring high. It was then that the Lehigh coaching staff got together and made a bold call.
This weekend, in front of a potentially large Parents’ Weekend crowd and Clutch’s Kettle student section, another promise of a consequential matchup between these two nearby, historic schools loom.
In the 89th meeting between Lehigh and Bucknell, the Mountain Hawk ground game ran up 323 yards rushing – the most rushing yards accrued in a single game since Kevin Cahill has been head coach – in a dominating 41-24 win over Bucknell, keeping Lehigh (4-0, 2-0 Patriot) undefeated overall and undefeated in Patriot League play.
Nationally, Lehigh/Bucknell might be considered a forgotten rivalry. The national pundits might not make it their Game of the Week, or even think of it as a Rivalry, or even think of it as a competitive game. But don’t tell that to the football players at Bucknell or Lehigh. To them, it most definitely not a lost Rivalry. And both sides know exactly how competitive this weekend’s game is going to be.
Lehigh football’s first trip to Pittsburgh in over 70 years was a business-like 35-21 win over Duquesne, a game where the Mountain Hawks never trailed but had to battle hard for four quarters to secure Lehigh’s first 3-0 start since 2013.
This weekend Lehigh (2-0, 1-0 Patriot) will go on the team’s first road trip of the season. They are heading across the state to Pittsburgh, PA to face off against Duquesne (1-1, 0-0 NEC) in an out-of-conference clash.
The reason that Cahill and the Lehigh football players came into the press conference with mostly serious faces wasn’t due to the stat sheet showing a resounding statistical victory for the Mountain Hawks. It’s because if you were there, playing or watching the game, you saw a different story.
The’ Pios’ are a program on the rise – one that are trying to elevate their profile and make a name for themselves the year before their entrance to one of the top leagues in FCS football.
It was an incredibly physical, bruising battle with both defenses not allowing any one play more than 40 yards. Additionally, befitting a battle of the top teams in FCS, no team had a lead of more than one score the whole way.
While Richmond will be looking for revenge, Lehigh will be looking for respectability – respectability in the sense of proving that last season was not a fluke.
Recent Lehigh University football teams haven’t had the experience of being the hunted before.
Even by the standards of the Patriot League, last season’s title race was one of the wildest in recent memory.
The power of a unexpected Lehigh football championship last fall led to a spring showcase that almost a family reunion feel, as the 2025 football team displayed their progress over the spring and the alumni and friends made it an event.
An impressive display by the Idaho Vandals in all three phases of the game ended the Lehigh Mountain Hawks’ 2024 football season in a 34-13 defeat at the Kibbie Dome in Moscow, Idaho.
Lehigh’s (9-3) reward is to take a long flight to Moscow, Idaho, close to the Eastern Washington border, to face off against one of the best FCS teams in the nation in the Idaho Vandals (9-3).
